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Title: Liberties

Author: centrifuge

Canon: Star Trek AOS

Pairing: James 'Jim' Kirk/Spock

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 10,972

Summary: In which Kirk precipitates an unintended cultural exchange, Spock develops a drinking problem, and the crew stages an intervention, but not the kind Kirk was expecting.

Recommendation: I love this so much. So much. I love that they play Go instead of the ubiquitous chess, and that Spock is affected by alcohol because he's half human even if it gives extra strength telepathy. Jim and Spock's mounting tension, as always, is a beautiful thing even when they're dorks about it.

Happily, though the link to this story is broken I have a saved PDF copy, and if you would like me to send it to you just PM me with the story, author, and an email address and I'm send it to you asap. <3

Recommendation #1,600

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From:

musyc

Head's up, this fic/link has been deleted. Author has deleted all works on AO3, looks like?

From:

isabellerecs

Oh man, your right and that sucks. :( (I know folks have reasons, but I really wish they'd orphan their works instead of deleting them.)

But if you are interested in this one, or almost any of my other recs with broken links, just PM me with an email address and I can send you a PDF copy. I started saving them about a year ago and there are only eleven stories that I just straight up have no copy of (which sucks). :D

From:

musyc

I found it on the Wayback Machine; it had been crawled before deletion.

I do the same thing. I download every fic I'm even thinking about reading. I ran into too many cases where a fic was deleted while it was still in my AO3 "mark for later" list, and due to AO3's workings, even the author and title were gone so I couldn't look to see if it was elsewhere.

From:

isabellerecs

That is a handy thing, isn't it. :D The Wayback Machine has saved me from totally losing some stories but unfortunately not others. I try not to think too hard about the ones that disappear from my "marked for later" list 'cause I really shouldn't miss stories I've not actually read. (I still seem to mourn the lost potential though.)

From:

musyc

My regret is not saving more fics in the LJ days. There's one I still think about from time to time, but I've never gotten a response much less an answer when I've asked about it on comms and such. I think I'm the only person who remembers it! (And I only remember parts of it, so searching isn't a big help.)

From:

isabellerecs

*sigh* I have a few stories like that. I remember just enough to tease myself but not enough to find the story. Ah well. I regret losing quite a few saved stories over the years to bad hard drives, I only saved to external storage now.

May I ask what you do remember about the story?

From:

musyc

XD Yeah, after a computer crash I bought an external drive. I backup that thing every month, just to be sure.

It was a Harry Potter fic, written MANY years ago. Set at Hogwarts, after the Yule ball (probably). It was mostly smutty, and had a look at all four houses. I don't remember the Gryffindors or Hufflepuffs, but Ravenclaw focused on Luna and I think she was doing something bondage? Maybe with ties? Slytherin was Draco and Pansy.

And like, that's all I can remember. I don't even remember if it was GOOD, but I look for it again every so often, hoping I'll find it so I can reread and determine if I want to keep it. At least so I can resolve the question in my head!

From:

isabellerecs

Oh man, that's the worst. You're looking so long and so hard and you don't even remember if it's going to be worth it. *sigh* I feel this so hard.

I was in HP fandom, but sadly this rings no bells for me. And I know so much HP stuff got taken down over the years because of one fandom event or other.